Brideshead Revisited
1981 | Drama | UK | Created by John Mortimer, from Evelyn Waugh
Overview
Evelyn Waugh novel with Jeremy Irons as Charles Ryder and Anthony Andrews as Sebastian Flyte, teddy bear Aloysius in tow, Castle Howard as Brideshead. Eleven episodes of Catholicism, class, and decline between the wars. Emmy and Bafta sweeps from Granada at its peak. The gold standard literary miniseries that exported British heritage television worldwide.
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